Want (I'll give you all the love I want in return)

Chapter 19 - Day or night, the sky's alight

Jimin licks his lips unconsciously. The attraction between him and Jungkook hums so dense and intense that he tastes it sticky and sweet on his plumb lips. The desire buzzes like something heavily electric between them, making the air Jimin inhales vibrate with want.

"I think it's time to go home soon."

"You wanna get outta here?"

They speak at the same time and blush furiously. Jungkook still can't rip his eyes from the omega's features, so he speaks towards Yoongi without looking:

"Hyung. We'll leave after this performance, OK?"

"I don't think so."

Yoongi's dry, clinical words are like a cold shower on their overheated minds. The crown prince sighs in frustration and continues in a berating tone as if talking to a petulant child:

"Jungkook-ah, how many times do I have to tell you? This is not about you. You and Jimin, me and Taeyoung: we represent something. We represent Silla's rule - teaching them..." he nods towards the guests: "...is the only purpose of this evening. How can you even think about leaving now?"

Jungkook visibly deflates, all the sizzling excitement fizzling out upon his brother treating him like a huge disappointment - like an idiot. But Yoongi is on a roll and doesn't stop talking:

"If you have to fuck: go find the master bedroom. It's not like its master will be using it tonight - or anytime soon." he laughs a dry, cruel little laugh, then becomes serious again: "Just make sure you're back in 15, 20 minutes max."

The young alpha blushes and mumbles: "It's not like that..."

Deciding to switch topics, Jungkook keeps his tone light and conversational:

"Hyung, we're gonna stay in Gimhae for a week at least, right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Jimin-ie mentioned he would like to visit a place by the sea. I think the two of us will go for two or three nights... I think we'll get ready tomorrow and leave the day after."

The elder looks at him unimpressed. His raspy voice is condescending when he counters:

"Really? We're going to have the public execution and you're thinking about escaping for a lame honeymoon?" he shakes his head in aggressive frustration: "You really don't get it, do you? We're not here for fun, but to pacify this territory - our territory. You have a role to play. You're not leaving. You'll be at the execution. Period."

"I... I... I have to go to the bathroom." Jungkook stutters.

The alpha sounds small and wounded that his brother tramples all over him like that - and Jimin guesses: not for the first time. The energy of desire is immediately replaced with the energy of anger: the omega feels the vexation bubble hotly inside him, so once Jungkook is gone he hisses at Yoongi with narrowed eyes:

"Don't treat him like that... as if he's a child... as if he's an idiot. He's not."

But the alpha is utterly unphased at Jimin's sudden outburst. He squints at him lazily, unbothered. His voice is level when he answers after a few heartbeats:

"I'll stop talking to Jungkook-ie like a child when he stops acting like one."

With that, the crown prince regards this conversation as finished and turns his attention to Hyorin and Youngbae, asking for their opinion on which of Gimhae's families to be wary about - who might have a problem with being loyal to Silla. They talk over Jimin's head as if he doesn't exist, because he doesn't really know any of the names they throw around.